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Old October 11th 05, 04:01 AM
sleepy6
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In article .com,
says...


Bryan Martin wrote:
It took over ten years to get LSA approved. How long do you think it

would
take to get changes made to 103 especially since the FAA has emphati

cally
claimed that 103 would not be changed? Most likely not until long af

ter the
deadline has passed. If you own a fat ultralight, you had better tak

e the
2007 deadline seriously or you may be sorry you didn't.



A little birdie whispered in my ear that the weight limit for
FAR 103 will be raised to 330 lbs in about a year.

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FF


Or more Your prediction is as good as those predicting disaster
The ultralight lists have been through all this literally years ago and
RAW is just now getting into it.

Yes SP is great for older pilots and others with medical problems.

No it's not really attractive to newbies. When they compare costs and
limitations they choose PP.

Study it and/or actually go through the process and you will see why.
Many in the UL community were all for it until it came time to lay
their money down. Suddenly they decided to go PP.

The planes are there if the FBO was interested. The instructors were
there if the FBO was interested. Some of the FAA classes were canceled
because they couldn't find enough people to take them. There is a
reason for that